Air taxis and personal transports

India’s ePlane Company “seeking to raise USD40-50 million to support e200X development”

The Economic Times of India that reports eVTOL company The ePlane Company “is looking to raise around USD40-50 million through a round that combines equity, convertible instruments and proposed government-backed research, development and innovation (RDI) […]

Air taxis and personal transports

SkyGrid, Wisk Aero propose new class of flight rules to enable automated AAM operations

SkyGrid and Wisk Aero have released a new white paper, Enabling Scalable Urban Air Mobility Through Automated Flight Rules, outlining how Automated Flight Rules (AFR) can enable the safe and scalable integration of Urban Air […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Electra joins Virginia’s AAM smart airspace programme to trial AAM IFR routeings

Electra today announced a new partnership with the Virginia Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Smart Airspace Program to design, implement, and test a first-of-its-kind, low-cost instrument flight rules (IFR) network for Ultra Short and other advanced […]

Vertiports

Airmobility, Skyportz partner to introduce the Aeroberm™ modular vertiport to Japan

AirMobility and Skyportz have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the introduction of Skyportz’s patented modular vertipad, the Aeroberm™, into the Japanese market. AirMobility Inc. aims to combine the Aeroberm™ with its proprietary […]

Emerging regulations

New US Senate proposed legislation “will speed FAA certification of US eVTOLs”

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators – John Curtis (R-UT), Peter Welch (D-VT), Ted Budd (R-NC), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Jerry Moran (R-KA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Tim Sheehy (R-MT), and Todd Young (R-IN) – will introduce […]

Air taxis and personal transports

INFLYNC announces “first flight of the world’s first full-scale tilt-wing ducted fan eVTOL”

China’s INFLYNC has announced in a Linkedin post that “the world’s first full scale tilt wing ducted fan eVTOL — INFLYNC L600 has successfully completed its first flight.” According to the company: “INFLYNC L600 has […]